As you know, my Tilly is the crafty one. Earlier this week we started the day chatting and I asked her what she wanted to do. "Craft". Of course. On further discussion she wanted to do painting and it had to be a winter painting.I remembered seeing something on Play School ages ago and so we set about our piece using that as inspiration. On searching just now, here is a link to the original idea.

We started off with our black paper and made a nice big layer of snow along the bottom in thick, white paint.

Using some white paint that I thinned with water, we made some tree trunks and then pooled some of the mixture at the top of the trunks. Using a straw, we then took turns blowing the pool of watery paint until we liked the look of the 'branches' that were left.

Onto a snowman. Three white circles were stuck on by Tilly. She then used a gold pen (very exciting!) to add detail to the snowman- she added eyes (I love the way that she drew them), a carrot nose, a mouth, buttons and arms.

Next was the fun part... the snow falling. We used an old toothbrush and more of the watery paint to make this. Tilly had a try but it was hard for her to splatter with her little fingers, so once she'd had a good try I finished off the job.

In no time at all we were done! Here is our completed winter picture. I love how striking the white is on the black background and how it includes a range of different ways of using paint. And yes, she is wearing my old art smock from when I was small.